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Description :The ATC SCM7 is ATC's least expensive speaker, but it is certainly not cheap. These bookshelf nearfield monitors may be all the speaker that anyone, regardless of their audiophile expectations or pocketbook, will ever need. The SCM7 speaker has the dynamic agility with the harmonic suavity. While the SCM7's dynamic agility doesn't go so far as to give the ATCs a tipped-up harmonic balance, it does render the ATCs less laid. This makes the ATCs less tolerant of marginally recorded material. On bad recordings, It sounds especially rude through the SCM7's. On good recordings, it sounds very rich and harmonically complete through the ATCs. The ATC SCM7 also has less bass extension which makes it leaner in the mid-bass region. It focuses on upper midrange and lower treble due to its greater dynamic contrast in this region. At higher volume levels, the ATC SCM7 shines. At low and moderate volume levels the ATC sounds like it is merely idling and warming up for some real work. Due to their smaller cabinet size and closer distance between the tweeter and midrange/woofer, the SCM7s image good. They also create a somewhat larger listening window and aurally disappear more convincingly. For its size the ATC SCM7 does a very credible job of throwing up a cohesive three-dimensional soundfield.